Why Trump's Iran policy is right When the Iranian parliament chanted “ death to America"  while unanimously voting "to increase spending on its ballistic missile program and the foreign operations of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard," sophisticated diplomats may have pondered the symbolic meaning of "death to America."  After all, our wisest and most sophisticated analysts have reassured us, it couldn't literally mean "death to America." The New York Times has been on a campaign to convince Americans the phrase has lost its original meaning. Here are examples from  2013 ,  2014 ,  2015 , and  2017 . The same analysts reassure us that when senior Hamas leaders are quoted saying "not a single Jew will remain" in Israel, they are really communicating symbolically. As a historian, I am always amazed at the sophistry of well-educated establishments that hide from reality through the use of convoluted thinking an...